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From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Nevin <nevin@deepwell.com>
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Subject: Re: Limits on apache
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I think you just need to up your kernal params - for instance, named, if
invoked after the ifconfigs might not come up - it has to do with binding
to each and every address.


On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Nevin wrote:

> Dear fellow bsd lovers,
> 
> 
> I have receintly ran into a problem with our webserver and I was wondering if anyone
> 
> out there might be able to explain to me whats going on.
> 
> 
> I am running a web server using apache 1.2 and stronghold 3.0 both on freebsd 2.2.2.
> 
> 
> It seems the the server wants to go boom if I try to bind more than 150 ip addresses
> 
> to the network interface with ifconfig. 
> 
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem or might know if there is a limit to the number of ip addesses that can be used?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
>  
> 
> <bold>Nevin Cirtin
> 
> </bold>Network Systems Administrator
> 
> DeepWell Internet Services
> 
> http://www.deepwell.com
>